'Flood' definitions:

Definition of 'flood'

From: WordNet
noun
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion]
noun
An overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent]
noun
Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography [syn: flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood]
noun
A large flow [syn: flood, overflow, outpouring]
noun
The act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flood, flowage]
noun
The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare [syn: flood tide, flood, rising tide] [ant: ebbtide]
verb
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp]
verb
Cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
verb
Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut]
verb
Become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

Definition of 'Flood'

From: GCIDE
  • Flood \Flood\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.]
  • 1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flood'

From: GCIDE
  • Flood \Flood\ (fl[u^]d), n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fl[=o]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[=o]d, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl[=o]dus; from the root of E. flow. [root]80. See Flow, v. i.]
  • 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. [1913 Webster]
  • A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. [1913 Webster]
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Menstrual disharge; menses. --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
  • Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
  • Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
  • Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
  • Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
  • Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
  • The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flood'

From: Easton
  • Flood an event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.

Synonyms of 'flood'

From: Moby Thesaurus